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Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Columbus Day Exhbit

The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology will feature an exhibit about Columbus Day in response to the Fall Weekend name change. The exhibit will go up in October and will be part of the current "Reimagining the Americas" exhibition.

"The exhibit is about the history of Columbus Day and a little bit about Columbus himself," said Museum Director Steven Lubar. "Holidays are important because they tell us something about who we are as a people and how we change," he added. [Read more here.]

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